Lectures and seminars

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Debating Issues of War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition

17:00 24 March 2026
Professor Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University (online) Host: Dr Tom Woerner-Powell Abstract: War and peace are universal themes in which Muslim scholars throughout history have taken…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2026
Title: Pure mathematics in medicine Abstract: Traditionally, pure mathematics is described as the kind of maths we do without any regard to applications. However, this divide is rather…

Panel: Marking the completion of British Library Endangered Archives Project EAP1531

16:00 - 18:00 24 March 2026
We are pleased to invite you to a panel marking the completion of EAP1531, a British Library Endangered Archives Project that digitised and catalogued two endangered archival collections…

GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals

16:30 - 18:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Hemansu-Roy Trivedy, former UN Resident Coodinator in Timor-Leste Drawing on Blanchard and Hersey’s work on leadership, this presentation will focus on three areas: (i) situational…

Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) Title: Definable groups in differentially closed fields of positive characteristic Abstract: Definable groups in theories of fields…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Andrew Parker University of Durham. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Effect of Alter’s Brokerage Orientations on an Individual’s Leader Identity

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While prior research has primarily focused on individual characteristics and experiences…

Sea Ice in the Climate System

15:00 - 16:30 25 March 2026
Lecture from Dr Amy McGuire, Geography, University of Manchester Part of the Geography Department Research Seminars series

SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Generalized Friendship Paradoxes in Network Science

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Professor Desmond J. Higham (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: Generalized friendship paradoxes occur when, on average, our friends have more of some attribute than us.…

The Fear of a Shrinking Nation: Chronologies of the Future and the Collapse of Everyday Life in Japan

16:00 25 March 2026
Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) The fear that the nation is shrinking, potentially into oblivion, prevails in contemporary Japan. Every year, stories about record-low fertility…

Expert Insight Series: The adventures of a nuclear technologist 1962-2026 and cogeneration

14:00 - 15:30 30 March 2026
Juan will briefly reflect on his career in the nuclear sector against the backdrop of the industry’s historical ups and downs. The talk will then shift focus on the role of cogeneration…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López

15:00 - 16:00 30 March 2026
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous…

GM Seminar: Can AI help us tackle air pollution?

13:00 - 14:30 31 March 2026
This event is part of the GM Policy Hub Seminar Series. In each seminar we focus on a different regional policy agenda, with a University of Manchester academic presenting their research…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Beyond the blueprint - Designing digital tools with meaning, not assumptions

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2026
Our next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-Apr, 1-2pm BST (8-9am EDT) via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96316523515. Sahr Wali (University…

Webinar: Inequalities in later life

12:00 - 13:00 8 April 2026
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing April webinar will focus on “Inequalities in later life” See below for further information and the sign-up link, please come along if…

NWBI & IBIC: AI x Biotech Seminar

13:30 - 17:00 14 April 2026
The Northwest Biotech Initiative & the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst are delighted to invite you to the 2026 edition of our annual seminar exploring the journey from…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Gabriella Pizzuto

11:00 - 12:00 15 April 2026
April’s AI-Fun and ELLIS invited speaker is Gabriella Pizzuto from the University of Liverpool. These events provide an opportunity for anyone working in AI and AI-related research…

Black Feminism Now

15:00 - 16:30 20 April 2026
Four members of the Black Health and Humanities Network reflect on how Black feminist theory shapes our work, sharing research case studies. In this moment of economic precarity, worsening…

‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2026
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'

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